Hazel Rankins describes her experiences in domestic service in Arkansas. She speaks about accompanying her sister to her job and helping with domestic work, such as sweeping and hanging laundry to dry. Rankins recalls having to use the back entrance at stores, as well as having to get in line behind white customers when making purchases in the store, even into the 1970s. Rankins remembers her sister discussing white men who she worked for trying to pressure her into sex, an experience she described as humiliating. Hazel Rankins describes having to use the back door and not being able to eat at the same table or off the same plates as white employers. She speaks about a cousin who spent time in jail because he would not tolerate racist boundaries and practices. Hankins shares an incident in which two of her cousins won a basketball game against a white team and were later run off the road and killed by some of the white players.